“The "boyfriend loophole" means that "if you commit a serious crime of domestic abuse against your wife, you can't get a gun, but if you do it against your girlfriend, you can.”
Amy Klobuchar
U.S. senator, D-Minn; 2020 presidential candidate. In an interview. Claim dated 12 Aug 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
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Amy Klobuchar (U.S. senator, D-Minn; 2020 presidential candidate) made this claim around 12 August 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 August 2019, 10 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Amy Klobuchar has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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